Specyfika staropolszczyzny a anotacja gramatyczna. Czym było dawne się?
Specific Features of Old Polish Language and Grammatical Annotation. What the Old Polish się Was?

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns to the grammatical annotation of Old Polish texts. It discusses the problem with the annotation of the textual word się (also sie and si). Linguists tend to disagree with the thesis that się belonged to a specific grammatical class. Also, historical dictionaries and corpora of Polish have not been helpful in annotating it. Difficulties resulted mainly from the fact that the Old Polish era was the time of crystallization of this word’s syntactic and morphological functions which were difficult to distinguish in many particular uses. In this paper we describe the process that led us to the creation of the class grammaticalized SIĘ (się as an exponent of certain grammatical information: a word-forming morpheme, an exponent of reflexivity, passivity or impersonality) and the adoption of two possibilities for annotating się (also as a personal pronoun).

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